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year, whenever we choose, without diflSculty, or without 

 injury to the balance of the house. 



This border, you will say, remains to be tried. This 

 is true ; but if we can fruit a vine with success and pro- 

 fit in an eleven inch pot, containing only about half a 

 cubic foot of soil, can we not fruit a longer cane as suc- 

 cessfully in twelve or fifteen cubic feet of soil, in the 

 detached border ? 



Then, again, this border may easily be extended, if 

 found necessary, to six feet or more long, with very 

 little trouble and expense, though we doubt whether 

 this will be required for many years. Or, the border 

 may be made wider at first. But we think we prefer to 

 have the inside of the house for other purposes, (at 

 least for a year or two,) say for a propagating bed, or 

 for a row of figs, or anything else you please. "VVe 

 shall of course expect to top-dress the border very freely 

 with liquid manure, and special fertilizers; and we 

 much prefer this method of growing grapes, where 

 every part of the culture is under perfect control, to 

 having large, cumbrous, sodden, sour, useless borders, 

 exposed to rain and frost, over which we have little or 

 no control. 



The house in question, which we have just complet- 

 ed, is somewhat new in its construction, in other re- 

 spects than those alluded to. It is set upon a terrace 

 two feet high, to prevent it from looking too low, but 

 the front sash and ventilator is only eighteen inches 

 wide, and hence the roof is brought within two feet of 



